| The Continuing Crisis | 2 |
| A Whiff from the Highfalutin Women | 3 |
| Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. | |
| Letter from a Whig | 4 |
| Will, George F. | |
| The Asmodeus Letters | 5 |
| Avey, John | |
| The World Role of the United States | 8 |
| Will, George F. | |
| Democracy in Action | 10 |
| Krieger, Terry | |
| Can There be Peace Without Power? | 14 |
| Buckley, Senator James L. | |
| The Strategic Balance and the Future of Freedom | 16 |
| Jackson, Senator Henry M. | |
| The Nation's Pulse | 19 |
| Hanratty, Liam | |
| Jr. on Military Trends: Implications for U S. Security and Soviet Military Power | 20 |
| Schneider, William | |
| The Panid in Needle Park | 22 |
| Brudnoy, David | |
| Correspondence | 24 |
| Frost, Dhvid & Romm, A.N. & Kaplan, Gib | |
| The Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt | 25 |
| Muskie, Senator & McGovern, Senator | |
| Brayings from the Barnyard: Compliments of The New York Review of Books | 26 |
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